Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: SF artist Ian Johnson will be exhibiting his latest drawings and paintings in his solo show, Of The Living Sky, featuring "realistic and highly detailed portraits of great jazz musicians, with the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COCKTAILS: The mixologists at Cocktail Lab will re-imagine your favorite drinks of the '80s in a stripped down "ludicrously culinary fashion" at Cocktail Lab 6: 80’s Shades and Switchblades. 10 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment Dance Anywhere Friday at Noon Dance Anywhere has been embracing the flash mob model since 2005, way before it got trendy. On Friday at Noon PST, they invite people across the world to take a minute to dance
Arts & Entertainment Video: Love Everywhere at City Hall Today's Love Everywhere dance performance at City Hall, put on by the Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project in celebration of the sixth-year anniversary of same-sex marriage, was a huge hit. We got there
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: In his latest exhibition Alex, artist Topher Chin depicts mescaline-enhanced experiences from a brief period during his teenage years with some appealingly trippy Op-Art. Get to the opening early -- the Fecal
SF News Free Show In Union Square Today: Cirque du Soleil's OVO by Amy Crocker While doing your holiday shopping, watch the Cirque du Soleil OVO performers catch hypothermia in Union Square today. Dancers from OVO will put on a "spontaneous" public show. The event
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: RAW (resident artist workshop) presents choreographer Aura Fischbeck Dance, who will be sharing a new improvisational work entitled “moment studies, too,” which incorporates the expression of the body in the present moment,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: CineKink: San Francisco, a touring version of NYC's "kinky film festival," has been at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this weekend. Tonight's films include The Auteur at 7 p.m., a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Women's Art Movement (W.A.M.) explores the scary and sweet sides of pop-surrealism in their latest group show, Dollhouse Monsters invade Polk Gulch. The participating artists of W.A.M. will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Bay Area poets and musicians will join together for The Monica Storss Benefit and Silent Auction to help Storss, who is uninsured, pay for the expensive new chemotherapy she needs to fight
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: ACT has joined forces with England's Kneehigh Theatre in this limited engagement, U.S. premiere of Brief Encounter, which is "ingeniously crafted with whimsical humor, dreamy romance, and stunning multimedia effects." The
Arts & Entertainment SF Fringe Festival Tonight Through September 20 The 18th Annual Fringe Festival, which features a completely unjuried format and gives the artists total creative freedom, starts tonight. Navigating the Fringe Festival's "free form" website is a bit overwhelming, much like
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PARTY: For those who'd love the chance to redo their prom experience, the Mishap Prom is your chance. Musical acts include The Missing Teens, Spandex Tiger, R&B Free Jazz Gospel Supreme
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DRAG: It's the 14th Annual SF Drag King Contest, the biggest and longest running drag king contest in the world. This year's event is beach-themed, and proceeds will benefit P.A.W.S.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMMUNITY: Celebrate the diversity of Lower Haight with an evening of live music, live painting, food, drink, merriment, and merchant discounts at the Lower Haight Art Walk. 7 to 10 p.m. // Haight
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Nine emerging artists sought out inspiring mentors to explore the collaborative experience for Ever Gold Gallery's Double Trouble exhibition. Mentor-student pairs include John Casey + Althea James, Jihaari Terry + Kale Cooley, Tara Foley
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Joe Goode Performance Group presents Traveling Light, an installation combining dance, language, irony and reflection, which will take the audience on a journey through the vaults and chambers of the oldest stone
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Tonight's Kafana Balkan party, which is a benefit for Hleb i Sir Cirkus (Bread and Cheese) who provide free circus shows and workshops for refugee children in Kosovo, will feature high-energy Balkan
misc SFist Interviews: Reverend Billy, NYC Mayoral Candidate by Quinn Miller Reverend Billy Talen, performance artist and international activist, founder of the Church of Life After Shopping (formerly knows as the Church of Stop Shopping), star of the documentary What Would
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight GALA: Legendary Academy Award winner Patty Duke will be honored live and in-person in Sparkle, Patty, Sparkle! The event includes an interview with the zany Bruce Vilanch about Duke's stellar career, a screening
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Afrofunk Music Festival presents Malian singer and guitarist Vieux Farka Toure, who combines traditional instruments with a modern sound. Luke Top and DJ Jeremiah open. 8:30 p.m. // The Independent
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SIDESHOW: Wrestling circus performers compete with wrestlers performing circus stunts in the When Legends Collide Tour: The Jim Rose Circus vs. Jake “The Snake” Roberts, with special guests Sinn Bohdi, Bebe the Circus
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Tonight is the start of The Crucible's 9th Annual Fire Arts Festival, an open-air exhibition of interactive fire art, performance and the largest collection of outdoor fire sculpture on the West Coast,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: The Lab has been celebrating their 25th anniversary this month. Tonight, composers Miya Masaoka, founder of the San Francisco Gagaku Society, and Tomas Philips will perform. Phillips' performance will consist of an
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: GLBT Historical Society, LGBT Community Center, and Scott Richards Contemporary Art will unveil MILK, the photo mosaic of Harvey Milk, created by Robert Silvers. The event immediately follows the Rainbow Flag raising
